Collimation of emissions from a 1-–cm aperture tightly arranged, multistripe laser–diode bar with a multiprism array coupling

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1875-1878

  Yamaguchi, Satoshi ^a,b   Kobayashi, Tetsuro ^a   Saito, Yoshimasa ^a   Chiba, Koichi ^a  

^a NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Electronics and Information Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Collimation; Focusing; Laser diode bar; Multiprism array; Tightly arranged multistripe

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ARRAYS; FOCUSING; LASER BEAMS; LENSES; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PRISMS;

OPTICAL COLLIMATION; PRISMLETS; TIGHTLY ARRANGE MULTISTRIPES;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031100688     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001875     Document Type: Article

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